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Puff Daddy and Two-Pack Meet the Deficit
Capital Ideas
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
8.28.2002
Turning a two-year budget surplus of $12 billion into a deficit of $24 billion, California’s current predicament, is a tough act to follow by any standard. But a debt-relief plan currently making the rounds here may be up to the task, at least in terms of irony, because it makes the state dependent on the very groups it has punished: smokers and the Big Tobacco companies.
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UC’s “Too Many Asians” Admissions Policy
Capital Ideas
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
8.21.2002
Prior to Proposition 209, the University of California used race preferences to admit less academically qualified black and Hispanic students over more qualified Asians. Now, evidently uneasy that Asians make up nearly 40 percent of its undergraduates despite being only 11 percent of the state population, UC is again skirting 209 against high-achieving Asians.
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Environmentalism’s Woodstock
Capital Ideas
By: Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D
8.14.2002
In two weeks some 60,000 members of the international chattering class will assemble in Johannesburg, South Africa for the United Nations’ “World Summit on Sustainable Development” (WSSD). The unctuousness of U.N. gabfests can always prompt a smile, as they chiefly produce paperwork sufficient to supply several recycling plants in perpetuity. The U.N.’s Environmental Programme (UNEP), for example, is about to conduct a study of environmental conditions in Palestinian territories. One wonders whether they will reach the bold conclusion that terrorism is incompatible with sustainable development.
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Ipso Fatso, Part Deux
Capital Ideas
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
8.8.2002
Several years ago the government of California, which has better things to do, scolded residents for their eating habits, prompting a response in this space. The sequel involves a weighty tale of a different sort, with a potentially huge conflict.
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PC Campuses Hold Peril for Women
The Contrarian
By: Sally C. Pipes
8.8.2002
By some counts, women are now a majority on American campuses, receiving most of the degrees, which dispels the notion that the educational system favors boys and oppresses girls. The trend toward more women in higher education is to be applauded and encouraged, but it also calls for a warning.
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Financial privacy laws in conflict
ePolicy
By: Marc Loewenthal
8.8.2002
The USA Patriot’s Act (“USAPA”), a response to September 11, changes 15 federal statutes designed to thwart money laundering and financing of terrorist activities. While the purpose is laudable, the effectiveness is questionable and the measure conflicts with a key federal law on financial privacy.
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Defining Victory in Iraq and Beyond
Freedom and Public Policy
By: Lawrence J. McQuillan, Ph.D
8.1.2002
The Bush administration is trying to win support at home and abroad for a strike against Iraq to remove Saddam Hussein. Disagreements center on how the administration should define victory in Iraq and how it should “win the peace.” History and economics provide the answers.
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